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Sonnet 74. In sultry noon when youthful Milton lay
[1]In sultry noon when youthful Milton lay,
Supinely stretch'd beneath the poplar shade,
Lur'd by his Form, a fair Italian Maid
Steals from her loitering chariot, to survey
The slumbering charms, that all her soul betray.
Then, as coy fears th' admiring gaze upbraid,
Starts;—and these lines, with hurried pen pourtray'd,
Slides in his half-clos'd hand;—and speeds away.—
“Ye eyes, ye human stars!—if, thus conceal'd
By Sleep's soft veil, ye agitate my heart,
Ah! what had been its conflict if reveal'd
Your rays had shone!”—Bright Nymph, thy strains impart
Hopes, that impel the graceful Bard to rove,
Seeking thro' Tuscan Vales his visionary Love.
1: This romantic circumstance of our great Poet's juvenility was inserted, as a well known fact, in one of the General Evening Posts in the Spring 1789, and it was there supposed to have formed the first impulse of his Italian journey.
Anna Seward's other poems:
- Sonnet 78. Sophia tempts me to her social walls
- Sonnet 89. Yon late but gleaming Moon, in hoary light
- Sonnet 17. Ah! why have I indulg'd my dazzled sight
- Sonnet 36. Now on hills, rocks, and streams, and vales, and plains
- Sonnet 68. Well it becomes thee, Britain, to avow
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